EATING SPINACH, WANTING CHOCOLATE

I recently came across my very first spiritual daily reader, and I am touched, not to mention amazed, by the sentences I highlighted back then. Such as: Your life has been given to you mainly for the purpose of training your soul, and Your soul is being trained by the good you choose.

It seems to my memory that I've just realized those truths in the last few years. In fact, it's not that I've just realized them, it's that they have taken this long to become natural to me...without having to remind myself, or go back and correct me, every other step of the way.

Our natural mind is always at the forefront and always legislates for itself. It takes serious suffering or divine intervention (both being the same, according to me) to turn us in the direction of spiritual growth as opposed to the way of the ego.

Even then it takes a fair amount of trial and error and willingness to continue, to keep turning away from ego, heading toward a higher way...all of which need time and the ability to stay in the Now. We're learning to want God's will done in our life more than we want our will done no matter how wonderful our will seems to be...or how less-than-wonderful we fear God's will be.

I think of it as the same principle as eating spinach while lusting for chocolate. Just eat your spinach, say "thank you" and know: Your soul is being trained by the good you choose.

Thank you.